Vinny's Literature of Comics and the Graphic Narrative

For this week, I sat down with the web comic Shen Comix on webtoons. I've seen the work on instagram before and it always makes me laugh when it pops up on my feed. It is episodic, but the story is non-linear for the most part does not have continuity each week. The lighthearted tone and style mixed with the heavy emotional tone from time to time creates a duplicitous tone at times, creating a contrast that is incredibly enthralling. If I'm on the go or in the mood to binge a stream of comics, I can sit down and do both. Some of the earlier series included a constant battle between Shen himself and life, creating a multi-part series that took up a large portion of the production for awhile. The simpler, less complex comic has a fun story that leaves you excited for the next one. Following the current movement of comics, it experiences a lot of pop culture and from to time current fads, including the uneasy eyes meme that found its way across the artistic circles in April of thi

 RESPONSE: Batman: the killing joke. For this week, I had read Batman: the killing joke. I had remembered reading the original version of this print some fifteen years ago and being a younger kid at the time, a lot of the context had been lost. However, with a more matured view and a brilliant recoloring, i felt that this story is a very humanizing and symbolic graphic novel. With the batman stylized in his classic attire and driving a very 1940's themed bat-mobile, i felt that the play on the original era of batman was a nice twist and helped to root it in the classical detective era of pop culture. The characters seem gritty, and hard boiled, almost like the characters and detectives of the film noir world. While batman is flawed in his own ways, his attempted prevention of fate killing off him or the joker is his code of honor trying to do whats right. Reading Response in class: Batman: The Killing Joke. Questions: 1. What is your reaction to the text you just read? I wa